Every election season, the same scenario plays out across Ohio: school districts put levies on the ballot, and taxpayers are told to vote yes or risk “losing our schools.” For residents across the Miami Valley, I have to ask: are repeated levies really the solution, or just a band-aid for a broken system? As someone who has watched local politics and public policy closely for decades, I promise you: relying on levies to fund schools has become the default, not the exception.